Numbers 9:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

Defiled

John 18:28

They came

General references

Leviticus 23:5

Haggai 2:13

Bible References

Defiled

"Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

"'All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body.

"'Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor's residence. (Now it was very early morning.) They did not go into the governor's residence so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.

They came

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community.

And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,

Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

The Israelite woman's son misused the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

General references

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is a Passover offering to the Lord.

Then Haggai asked, "If a person who is ritually unclean because of touching a dead body comes in contact with one of these items, will it become unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean."